The popularity of inexpensive notebook increases demand for processors with small energy consumption.
HP Company ordered 100000 ULV- processors VIA C 7 M for the first party of inexpensive PC (capacity of deliveries will compose 500000 units). In UMPC m700 from gigabyte technology production will also use VIA processor . Besides these two companies, other producers also examine VIA processors as possible base of their UMPC and inexpensive notebook.
Intel atom processors presented recently has a number of limitations. For example, they support only single-channel memory and intended for systems with standard size lower than Mini-ATX. VIA in this case is more flexible. , In addition , The first tests results show that the new VIA processor exceeds Atom on performance.